Seattle Seahawks assistant offensive line coach Luke Butkus and assistant special teams coach Jeff Ulbrich are both leaving the team to join the college ranks. Butkus will join Illinois as their offensive line coach and Ulbrich will join UCLA as the special teams coach.

Larry Mayer, of ChicagoBears.com, reports the Chicago Bears have hired Luke Butkus as their new assistant offensive line coach. Butkus, who is the nephew of former Bears LB Dick Butkus, participated in the club's training camp as an undrafted free agent center in 2002. Butkus had been serving as a graduate assistant at the University of Oregon for the past two seasons.